Question

Recently, my Visual Studio 2008(with Resharper 4.5) has started to reformat asp tags into lowercase.

Example:

<asp:Repeater runat="server" id="rp">

becomes

<asp:repeater runat="server" id="rp">

and I can’t find a way to make it not do this. I use Ctrl-k Ctrl-d to reformat.

I’ve tried resetting the Visual Studio settings, turning off Resharper. Nothing seems to bite.

I did delete a huge Reflected something folder in my Documents and Settings folder last week, could this be the reason?

Answer 1

I had the same (or very similar) issue.

I also deleted some (but not all) files in the folder

C:\Documents and Settings[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ReflectedSchemas

The reason I did this is because I’m subject to a frankly daft limit on the size of my (Windows XP) roaming profile 🙁

After I did this VS intellisense and document auto-formatting started behaving as if it didn’t know what the <asp: tags were and treated all the html as plain html (formatted tag names and attributes in lowercase).

I found this blog post by Tim Vasil which pointed me to the solution.

Here’s what I did to fix this:

1. Deleted all files in C:\Documents
   and Settings[username]\Application
   Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ReflectedSchemas

2. Deleted all files in
   C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary
   ASP.NET Files

3. Deleted the .suo User Option file (the file has the same name as the solution file with .suo in place of .sln)

(Note: VS eventually regenerates the various files in it’s own time…)